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Lady Gaga's Wheelchair Is Made of 24-Karat Gold (Of Course It Is)

Lady Gaga had surgery on her hip last month, which
means she's spending the remainder of her recovery at the mercy of her
unwalkable stems.

But since this is A Very Special Lady
Gaga-Style Recovery she's not letting a stupid "labra tear of the right
hip" and "synovitis" get in the way of recuperating like the non-human
being that she is. She's going to need some equipment that's epic and
worthy of 500 blog posts because that's just how she...rolls.

That's
why she's commissioned a custom 24-karat gold-plated wheelchair to help
her regain her foreboding strength. She probably would've wanted
something made exclusively out of meteorites and soil from Mars, but
Gaga's limited to our earthly resources. The kind of wheelchair they
could potentially sell at Harry Winston, but is just short of being
manufactured at a mine rife with blood diamonds. I mean, let's be
realistic here.

Mother Monster turned to her right claw man Ken
Borochov who designed the bizarre metal talons and cuffs she routinely
wears. Ken had less than a week to come up with the mobile fixture and
what he fashioned was a calf leather upholstered chair that fully
reclines. There's even an attachable leather canopy, just in case you
want to plop Rosemary's Baby on it one morning. The end result is an
apparatus he's calling "The Chariot," a wheelchair fit for the 1%.
Mission accomplished.

The reveal was made in a one-off photo
today taken by hipster magnet Terry Richardson. Can you imagine if this
wheelchair could talk by the end of her recovery? OR SING? The stories
it could jazz hands its way through involving drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll,
and the descent of the pop star? There's so much material to work with
here I can totally see a glam rock musical called The Chariot coming to Broadway in 2015.

Or at least an animated Pixar movie version because that wheelchair with some googly eyes could be kinda cute. They can call it Wheel-E.